Rec-Cember 2025 Overflow: Empires SMP [52]

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{Main List}

Season 1

all of our love filling all of our room by maikuria
General Audiences | F/M
Joel SmallishBeans/Lizzie LDShadowLady
Fluff, Comedy
8,125 words | One-shot
"How can you not remember our first meeting?”
“I do!” He squirms, shifting and nudging until he can place his head on her lap. “But you won’t agree.”
OR: Betrothal necklaces are a very serious thing in Mezalea.
OR: After Lizzie's transformation, Joel has a very important mission.

and i cough up my lungs by weareallstardustfallen
Teen And Up Audiences | M/M
Jimmy SolidarityGaming & Scott SMajor1995, Lizzie LDShadowLady & Jimmy SolidarityGaming
AU - Canon Divergence, Angst, Hurt/Comfort
1,728 words | One-shot
“Please,” he said, a little plaintively. “Fwhip, come on.”
His breaths were coming short and fast, and he forced himself to steady it with the ease of practice even through his anxiety, counting out breaths with a mechanical rhythm. If he was careful, he could manage without the mask long enough to get it back.
Hopefully.
Or: Jimmy's mask is a bit more important than he pretends it is. When Fwhip takes it, he's left struggling to breathe and with very limited time.

angel of souls, sing once more the world's eulogy by Yylfinn_00
General Audiences | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Pixlriffs & Xornoth, Pixlriffs & Empires SMP Ensemble
Post-Apocalypse, AU - Canon Divergence
3,205 words | One-shot
Pixlriffs wakes up after a long time, and is here to be a shield between his friends and danger, just as he has for longer than they can remember. And the world ends, just like it has for eternity and just like it will for eternity more.
OR
a love letter to Empires, the Rapture, and more specifically, Pixlriffs
OR OR
i love bamf pix ok i need more in my life this loreman has taken over give me more bamf loreman-

Bare-Faced Honesty by PawPunk
General Audiences | M/M
Jimmy SolidarityGaming/Pixlriffs
Getting Together, Fluff
576 words | One-shot
Jimmy doesn't take off his cod mask, except when he does.

Christmas Is Better Together by PacificSeaOtter
General Audiences | M/M
Jimmy SolidarityGaming/Scott SMajor1995, Jimmy SolidarityGaming & Lizzie LDShadowLady, Joel SmallishBeans/Lizzie LDShadowLady
Fluff, Family, Angst with a Happy Ending
2,928 words | One-shot
Scott doesn't have anybody to celebrate Christmas with, but that's okay, he's fine! He doesn't need anyone, he doesn't need to bother the others.
Unfortunately for him, this year is different, because Jimmy is a stubborn, loyal cod and he's not letting Scott get away with being left by himself on Christmas.

Clay by zombiiehorse
General Audiences
Jimmy SolidarityGaming & Joel SmallishBeans, Joel SmallishBeans/Lizzie LDShadowLady, fWhip & Joel SmallishBeans
1,006 words | One-shot
Joel is a totally normal, absolutely perfect human and obviously all humans are made of clay. Duh.

Friendship is in the Eye of the Beholder by ScarletHalo
General Audiences | Gen
Grian & Joel SmallishBeans
3,662 words | One-shot
Joel has heard enough of imaginary entities (read: Xornoth) causing issues in other empires. But when his villagers start reporting sightings of a humanoid creature lurking around Mezalea, he has to investigate. Maybe he'll even make a new friend in the process.
Or: Watcher Grian crashes into EmpiresSMP, missing a sense of who exactly he is and what's happened to him.

Halcyon Sky (A Breath of Calefaction) by ImperialKatwala
General Audiences | Gen
Scott SMajor1995 & Xornoth
Redemption
4,109 words | 2 of ? chapters
Scott’s eyes widened and his breath caught in his throat. There was no way it was that easy. It couldn’t be that easy, not after everything.
“… The ritual purifies,” he said slowly, not sure if the feeling building in his chest was laughter or tears. “It… No, there’s, there’s… It can’t just…”
Yes, came the feeling again, a bit gentler this time.
Scott tore his hand away from the crystal, his breath shuddering in his lungs. No, this had to be a trick, it had to be. There was no way the crystal was purifying Xornoth.
(He couldn’t get his hopes up. He wasn’t sure he could handle losing his brother again.)

hugs can fix death by VenusAndVibes
General Audiences | Gen
Pixlriffs, Lizzie LDShadowLady, Jimmy SolidarityGaming
AU - Gods & Goddesses, Hurt/Comfort
847 words | One-shot
After the first successful End raid, the god of life respawns

I dreamed you called without reason by Tekhnetos
General Audiences | Gen
fWhip & Pixlriffs
1,218 words | One-shot
fWhip sits perched in the window of a sandstone building, specifically the one that usually allows moonlight to light the papers scattered across the floor desk in the Copper King’s bedroom. Right now the moonlight is dyed red, the papers nearly unreadable. Pix makes no effort to unfold himself from the floor despite this.
“I still don’t understand why you choose to work on the floor instead of a nice chair.” fWhip quips, leaning further into the room to take a peak at the pages. Some legal looking stuff in Pixandrian, nothing fun. “I could make you a sturdy one, ya’know. Your knees are killing me.”
“Says the man with chronic back pain?” Pix doesn’t so much as glance up from his work, grinning.
“Hey! That’s not just from bad posture! I got wings! Ones actually attached to my body and all!”
Or: Sleepover at a friend's house

just our hands, clasped so tight, waiting for the hint of a spark by smoothlikebutter (caimani)
Teen And Up Audiences | Major Character Death | Gen
MythicalSausage & PearlescentMoon
Canon Compliant, Hurt No Comfort, Angst
1,477 words | One-shot
Go to Pearl, Bubbles urges him before she leaves for the Spirit Realm. Sausage is already fearful and despondent at his inability to help his people and his kingdom, but his heart jolts when he thinks about his best friend. He saw her only a day ago, when the rulers gathered to try and make sense of what was happening.
If Mythland is like this... He looks to the south and gasps at the sight of black skies above Gilded Helianthia.

Lightning in His Veins by talon_wings
General Audiences | Other
Pixlriffs & Jimmy SolidarityGaming & LDShadowLady & Joel SmallishBeans
12,832 words | One-shot
Pixl looked around at each one of them in turn, meeting their eyes forcefully; when he was confident that he would not be interrupted, he finally continued. “Sausage was Xornoth’s most powerful servant, physically and politically.” Ignoring the groan of exasperation from Joel, he carried on, “The loss of such an asset means that the demon may choose to accelerate its master plan. We need to be alert.”
or: the reason the cod alliance was absent the battle against xornoth.

Only A Fool Would Fall for You (And Oh Baby Am I Stupid) by CUUNO
Teen And Up Audiences | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | M/M
Jimmy SolidarityGaming/MythicalSausage
Idiots in Love, Enemies to Friends to Lovers
4,730 words | One-shot
"...We need to get your robes off."
"Damn, take me out to dinner first," Sausage cracked. "Moving a bit fast, don't ya think?"
"Your entire side is gone," Jimmy said, his voice weak. "It's just not there."
Sausage hesitated, before swallowing back a bit of bile and starting to unbutton his robe.
OR: Sausage gets injured and finds his way to Jimmy, and they have a chat.

Separate Ways by GardenerGulfie
General Audiences | Gen
MythicalSausage & PearlescentMoon
Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Reincarnation
1,583 words | One-shot
Everything comes to Sausage slowly. He feels his arms floating by his side, completely free of the constant ache that had always plagued him from years of stressful dimensional travel. He smells nothing, which isn’t odd until he realizes that he’s never smelled nothing before. There’s always been something, even that time that he died there was blood and magic burn smell, plus a strange misty smell from the hall between worlds. Now, nothing.
He can see something past the lids of his eyes. Light. Golden light. He opens them only to shut them quickly. There’s spots dancing across his eyelids now.
The light dims and Sausage dares open them again.
Standing, or rather floating, in front of him is Pearl, the light radiating from her like she’s the sun.
---
Between lives, Sausage and Pearl reunite. But one must go on and one must stay behind.

Strength of a King by ZodiacDragon334
General Audiences | Gen
Pixlriffs
Worldbuilding, AU - Dragons, Prequel
6,631 words | One-shot
“My people were wanderers when we came to this land. We hadn’t had a permanent home for generations. We lived our whole lives travelling as a group, gathering materials and trading with whoever we came across for food and supplies before moving on. I think I was around twenty when we reached the desert of what’s now Pixandria, when the Lightning Dragon found us. As you might imagine, we were terrified, as one often is when an enormous Dragon appears in front of you. She asked us to send the strongest member of our group to her, and then flew off. We thought she wanted a sacrifice so we could pass through her territory safely.”
“And your people threw you to the Dragon?!” Gem exclaimed.
Pix laughed. “No, no. I’m getting there. [...]"- Of the Dragon's Blood, Chapter 16
OR: The story of the founding of Pixandria in my Empires Season 1 Dragon AU, and how Pix went from a wandering trader, to the king of an empire.

talking and bed sharing with your friends is fun by daisy_mooon
General Audiences | Gen
Jimmy SolidarityGaming, Pixlriffs
Friendship
641 words | One-shot
Jimmy stays over at Pix's house and they talk about some stuff.

watch the time go by weareallstardustfallen
General Audiences | Gen
Jimmy SolidarityGaming & Pixlriffs
AU - Gods & Goddesses, Hurt/Comfort, Friendship
1,328 words | One-shot
“Can I ask you something?”
"Sure."
"So, you're immortal, right?"
“Technically no, but close enough that the distinction doesn’t really matter.” “Do you ever wish that you, like… weren’t?”
Or: Pixl, old immortal, sits with Jimmy, young one.

when the flood water comes it ain't gonna be clear (it's gonna look like mud) by FulminateTheSun
Mature | Gen
fWhip & GeminiTay & MythicalSausage
Hurt/Comfort
9,570 words | One-shot
“You hurt everyone. You broke everything you could have broken. You tortured Gem!” He takes a step towards him, and the king takes one back. “And you don’t do anything but pity yourself and be an annoyance pretending to help. You aren’t leading your own kingdom, you aren’t even welcomed in the streets!”
He keeps walking, cornering him, until Sausage’s retreat is stopped by a tree. It doesn’t stop fWhip, however, who keeps approaching until he’s right in front of him. Until Sausage can’t do anything but face him and his eyes has nowhere else to look but his.“Look for something else to do with your life, because I don’t know if I can forgive you”
Gem manages to expel the demon. Sausage looks for redemption, and pretends everything is fine, even if there are days he can’t bring himself to leave his room. fWhip still doesn’t know if he can forgive him.

Season 2

A Fishy Situation by VenusAndVibes
General Audiences | Gen
Pixlriffs & Oli TheOrionSound
AU - Mermaids
3,750 words | One-shot
Oli was expecting a lot of things today: to sing, maybe woo someone, probably eating whatever Sausage and Pearl were baking. He was not expecting to be thrown into the water and meeting a mermaid.

aftermath excavations by Bee_4
General Audiences | Gen
Jimmy SolidarityGaming & Pixlriffs
Metafiction
506 words | One-shot
Consider this:
Sometimes, Jimmy looks at ruins and wonders if that's what's going to become of him too. Wonders if this time is just as doomed. He can't say that though. He can't.
Sometimes he does.

as stars with trains of fire by GoodTimesWithScar
General Audiences | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Gen
Oli TheOrionSound
1,322 words | One-shot
Oli drowns, and he dreams.

at last eternal through the past by seth_lost
General Audiences | Gen
Pixlriffs, Saint Pearl | Santa Perla [La Madre de Girasoles]
1,556 words | One-shot
Pixlriffs sees the world as it used to be. At first, he's nothing special. The archeologist's guild relocates him to the Ancient Capital, where he sits for hours in the blistering heat, hikes across hills and cliffs and mountains, even delves into caves armed only with a torch and feeble sword--he's a historian, not a mercenary--to catalog a massive diamond-infested ribcage the neighboring Sheriff discovered during his spelunking trip.
He mines and farms to keep his little patchy settlement alive. He brushes fossils and restores paintings and is careful, so careful, with the crumbling stone and the withering grass. He does his job, and his research, and preserves the past with gentle hands.
Perhaps it is his gentleness that gifts him the visions.
--
(aka what if Pix didn't have a wristband to show him the blueprints, but instead had visions? catch me clinging to my prophet!pix headcanons with trembling hands)

Boy Troubles And Girl Help by do0zy-writez (HollowWish)
General Audiences | Multi
GeminiTay & Oli TheOrionSound, Pixlriffs/Oli TheOrionSound
2,826 words | One-shot
Gem is woken up very early one morning by Oli, her neighbor having one request: to help him score a date with Pix. Gem, despite her grievances about being up so early, is determined not to fail him.

Curiosity Killed the Llama (or however the saying goes) by Anonymous
Mature | M/M
Scott Smajor1995/OwengeJuiceTV
Making Out, Fluff
1,884 words | One-shot
“I want to kiss you back.”
Scott stared at him.
“Um,” he said. “Why?”
“Because I want you to know I’ve learned manners,” Owen said. He looked to the side, “and it looks weird. I wanna get the hype.”
--
owen and scott make out

Don't Talk To Me Or My Son Ever Again by darubyprincxx
General Audiences | Gen
Joel SmallishBeans & Pixlriffs, David 4.0 & Pixlriffs
Fluff
2,623 words | One-shot
That's the line that's dropped at the end of one of one of Pix and Joel's regularly scheduled banter-between-friends-during-trading sessions, and Joel is caught rather off guard by it.
Or,
I don't have a video or timestamp right now, but Pix referred to David at one point in the latter half of Empires Season Two as his son and it's been stuck in my head all day. Trust me on this one.

En Garde by Leopardmask
General Audiences | Gen
FalseSymmetry & Lizzie LDShadowLady
Fluff
2,256 words | One-shot
False never thought she'd be in a place where she'd be teaching someone her favorite sport and means of self-defense. Maybe coming to the Empires world, even with no memories, really had been good for her. And maybe going through motions she learned long ago could unlock some of the things she's lost...

Fireflies by VenusAndVibes
General Audiences | Gen
Hermes, Pixlriffs
Fluff
990 words | One-shot
"Have you ever seen fireflies, Hermes?"
"Fireflies? What are those?"
"Well, how about I show you."

Five Goblin Courtship Rituals (and one human one) by Vanyel
General Audiences | M/M
fWhip/Jimmy SolidarityGaming
Friends to Lovers, Mutual Pining, Fluff
9,982 words | One-shot
Love language is a little general. Sometimes you have to get specific.
Or, Fwhip doesn't mind that Jimmy's a little clueless.

forget me not by Checkmace
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Jimmy SolidarityGaming & Joel SmallishBeans
Angst, Post-Apocalypse
993 words | One-shot
Tumble Town is not the first city in the mesa. Jimmy is not the first person formed of clay. Stratos is not the first empire Joel has ruled.
These are three facts that Joel knows, and they are all conspiring to make his life hell.
Or: Joel remembers.

Frozen Stones and Winged Shoes by VenixtheLoreKeeper
General Audiences | Gen
Pixlriffs, Hermes, MythicalSausage, Joel SmallishBeans
Fluff, Family Fluff
801 words | One-shot
Sausage and Joel are going off to deal with a massive threat. They leave Hermes at Pixl's house because it's possibly the least threatening.
The Castle of the Ancient Capitol gets really cold when it rains.

Ghosts and Glimmering (Crowns) by darubyprincxx
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Pixlriffs
Canon Compliant
951 words | One-shot
Pixl wakes up in his own bed after dying to the Crown. Something's... different.

In her light by Writer207
General Audiences | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
MythicalSausage & PearlescentMoon
1,173 words | One-shot
The past lives through memory; through song and dance, through paintings and architecture. Through stories passed on from generation to generation, told time and time again, twisted but with a kernel of the truth.
The same can be said about myths and legends. Perhaps actual titans had once walked on this world. Perhaps an actual deer god chose a divine champion to combat an evil power. Perhaps a sentient sea creature lay numerous eggs of which only two demigods survived. And perhaps the Mother of Sunflowers indeed lived among the people.
(or: the author takes one good look at the Pearl mural and runs with it)

Long Forgotten But I'm Still Here by do0zy-writez (HollowWish)
General Audiences | Gen
Oli TheOrionSound, MythicalSausage
Hurt/Comfort, Reincarnation
4,248 words | One-shot
Oli has some feelings about being thrown into Empires and forgotten by all his friends. And none of them are the good kind.

Memories of Copper by Notary_Sojac
General Audiences | Gen
Pixlriffs
Introspection, Missing Scene
923 words | One-shot
While working on reconstructing an ancient redstone device, Pix can't help but shake a strange feeling of deja vu.

Moths! Moths! Moths! by darubyprincxx
General Audiences | Gen
fWhip & Pixlriffs
Canon Compliant, Fluff
382 words | One-shot
Fwhip gets a phone call at 3am. It's Pixl. And he wants to talk about a cool moth he just found.

Myself as a Construct by HighAsAFlyingFish
Teen And Up Audiences | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Jimmy SolidarityGaming, Joel SmallishBeans, Pixlriffs
Worldbuilding
1,736 words | One-shot
There's a dead king in Tumble Town. Again.
Or; The Sheriff knows trouble when he sees it, but that doesn't mean he understands it. So when the stranger leaves and the God returns he is actually glad.
And then it happens again.
This time Pixlriffs won't have to murder him afterwards.

not the fire but the sparks by sesquidpedalian
Teen And Up Audiences | M/M
Pixlriffs/Scott Smajor1995
Fluff and Humor
1,784 words | One-shot
He’s just considering smashing the glass on one of the cases—probably not the brightest move, but what if he tried, just for the fun of it—when a voice interrupts him. “Oh! A visitor!”
Scott spins to beam at Pix standing by the entrance, though he’s careful to do it smoothly, look less like he’s scouting the place and more like he’s honestly here to take in the history.
or: Pix and Scott both know what Scott's doing at the museum. It doesn't mean they're not happy to play this game until the pretense wears off.

oh gentle guardian, oh perfect paladin by snowtagonist
General Audiences | Gen
Scott SMajor1995, Pixlriffs
1,048 words | One-shot
Scott and Pixl make a trade. They notice some things about each other in the process.

oli acquires baby dragon (and BONDS WITH IT) by azzyyo2 (reiyosan
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Oli TheOrionSound & His Baby Dragon
Accidental Baby Acquisition, Fluff
232 words | One-shot
It lightly headbutts his forearm, looking at him with those earnest glowing purple eyes, almost like—
Oh.
His muscles unwind from the tight hold he had on them and the dragon happily growls.
or, Oli and the Action of Bonding With Your Child

Open Your Eyes by VenusAndVibes
General Audiences | Gen
Pixlriffs | AU - Canon Divergence
2,620 words | One-shot
Pix wakes in a room with no memories on how he got there and with the voice of Pearl trying to guide him
Aka: Pix gets to live the BotW!Link experience

regrets (rectified!) by liambeans
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Joel SmallishBeans
Time Travel Fix-It, Crack
378 words | One-shot
Joel regrets a lot of things. When he appears back in the first cycle of Empires, smack dab in front of the Matral Palace, he rectifies a mistake that has haunted him for years.
—
inspired by the joel episode. that one, yes. we didn't get to see what happened to e2!joel, so here it is!

run towards the sun by confusedkestrel
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen, M/M
Pixlriffs & Oli TheOrionSound
AU - Post-Apocalypse, Slice of Life, Queerplatonic Relationships
832 words | One-shot
Oli, Pix, and life after the apocalypse.

send me on my way with some black roses by pixlostinatos
General Audiences | Gen
Rendog
335 words | One-shot
How and why did Sausage's body end up in the catacombs of the Ancient Capital, anyway?

Small Problems by do0zy-writez (HollowWish)
General Audiences | Gen
Jimmy SolidarityGaming & Pixlriffs
1,612 words | One-shot
Pixl gets a worrying donation to his museum
TW: Mention and Description of past panic attack

Storied Past by ImperialKatwala
General Audiences | Gen
Joel SmallishBeans & Hermes, Joel SmallishBeans & MythicalSausage
Fluff and Angst, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Grief/Mourning
2,739 words | One-shot
Stories are valuable. Hermes, being made from stories and magic, knows that better than anyone. So when he finds a secret room in Stratos full of stories, he investigates.
Or: The Mezalean King died a long time ago, along with his kingdom. Joel did not.

Sunflower fields (and salt dripping down my chin,) by Night_Raider
General Audiences | Gen
MythicalSausage & PearlescentMoon
Angst and Hurt/Comfort
671 words | One-shot
Sunflowers, ghosts, and sleep. Sausage reflects, hallucinates, and goes through grief.

The Path to Godhood by Eeva21
General Audiences | Major Character Death | Gen
Joel SmallishBeans, Pixlriffs
Not Canon Compliant
4,511 words | One-shot
Joel is just an average, mortal, boy living with his single mother in what will become the Ancient Capital. The Rapture hasn't occurred yet, but Joel is given a surprise when his father visits him, telling him a humanity-wiping event will happen in twenty years. He gives Joel an offer that includes safety from it.
Or, how Joel became a god that doesn't include the Fountain of Strength.

through the electricity of the world by sesquidpedalian
General Audiences | Gen
Pixlriffs
Canon Compliant
1,792 words | One-shot
An effort to catalogue the items and artifacts I’ve found in and around the Ancient City, with some input from our old friend. To my future self: I wouldn’t recommend showing this to any academic institution without cleaning up these notes a little. We can’t have anyone thinking we live in a hole in the side of a hill and use the catacombs for storage. :P
- Pixlriffs
or: A selection of excerpts from an archaeologist's notebook.

Under a Mezalean sky by Myrte46
Teen And Up Audiences | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Gen
Jimmy SolidarityGaming & Pixlriffs
Hurt/Comfort
752 words | One-shot
Pix finds Jimmy in the ruins of what used to be Mezalea, thousands of miles away from their home.

Unwelcome Light by talon_wings
General Audiences | Gen
MythicalSausage & Hermes
1,537 words | One-shot
It had been two days since his ill-fated visit to Pixlriffs’ excavation site, and the image of the golden-haired woman with her sunflower crown and her inviting, outstretched arms had not been far from his mind at any moment since he had stumbled upon the mural in the depths of the ancient catacombs. (He had successfully managed to push away the thought of the other thing he had found there, though for how long, he was unsure he even wanted to wonder.) Every time he closed his eyes, the gilded halo around her head stained the darkness behind his eyelids with unwelcome light.

Watching and Listening by do0zy-writez (HollowWish)
General Audiences | Gen
Pixlriffs & Oli TheOrionSound
AU - Watchers (Evolution SMP), Hurt/Comfort
2,089 words | One-shot
Oli is a listener, but doesn't really know yet. Pix however, does.

Your Hands are Warm by AstronautBeans
General Audiences | Gen
fWhip & Pixlriffs
Hurt/Comfort
986 words | One-shot
It wasn’t that he lived far away from everyone. Pix definitely had one of the more central empires. Only a slight detour from Stratos or Tumble Town and you’d stumble across the Ancient Capital.
It wasn’t far from anyone at all, and yet he couldn’t shoo away the feeling of loneliness.
Or, Pix gets lonely and fWhip visits

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